So going off the chalice in the movie, the distro that will save you from judgment is the plainest one – the one with the least bloat? That tracks.

That’s me with KDE Connect on my desktop and laptop. It’s sooooo nice.

I’ve had a similar experience too. One time I couldn’t find my phone, so I start looking high and low. Not in my bedroom, not in the bathroom, the kitchen… At this point, I’m turning over every stone, looking through cabinets and drawers, running out to my car to see if it’s in there. Come back in and decide that it must’ve fallen under my bed and I just didn’t hear it. Can’t see under there really well, so I pull out the flashlight on my phone. Start looking under there, still not turning up. The panic is really starting to kick in.

An embarrassing amount of time passes before I realize that I’m holding and using the thing I’m looking for.

Yeah, like I dunno, I think a lot of things I do by accident with my ADHD are super cool. But it definitely hurts more than it helps, and I don’t think that’s just because “we live in a society”. This post feels like huffing a suffocating dose of copium.

• “Oh, sorry, I heard literally every word of what you just said, but my brain encoded nothing.”
• “My sleep schedule is casually off by like five hours because I lost track of time hyperfocusing on learning about competitive Jenga until 4 AM.”
• “I know I could have been doing things, but I had this thing I needed to be at in 8 hours, so I just couldn’t focus on them.”
• “I either lose everything or create an intricate, tedious framework for where I keep everything at all times.”
• “I struggle immensely to cope with stress in a healthy way and have issues with my temper.”
• “If I can focus at all, it will be on exactly one thing, either for unhealthily long periods of time to the detriment of everything else or for so briefly that I accomplish nothing before moving on to the next dopamine rush.”
• “I have a much higher risk of substance abuse because my body is starving for dopamine.”
• “I have trouble keeping promises I’ve made to other people because they vanish out of my mind.”
• “I constantly miss small details and need to quintuple check everything I do.”
• “My priorities are constantly fucked, and I consistently put off everything until the last minute.”
• “It often feels physically painful for me to focus when it’s not on the first thing my brain decides it wants to do.”

Here you go.

If it looks like a duck

And it swims like a duck

And it quacks like a duck

Then it’s probably the Islamic Republic of Pakistan.

This community in like 5 seconds (which sounds funny as fuck; amazing idea)

• !sonicthehedgehog@lemmy.world
• !metroid@lemmy.world
• !slycooper@lemmy.world

Yeah, I’m siding with the French government on this one at first blush. E2EE platforms are a necessary tool for combating government overreach and corporate surveillance. But if you willingly make a platform that’s not E2EE, the idea of users being able to share this vile shit being a “necessary evil” toward the greater societal good completely falls apart. If you 1) have this vile content on your platform, 2) know it exists, 3) can trivially combat it in a targeted manner, and 4) choose not to, then you’re complicit in its distribution.

I have no sympathy for a CEO who tries to dupe their userbase into believing their app is private and then not even take advantage of the one single ethical benefit to the platform not being E2EE.

Interesting! I’d feel a lot more comfortable with it if it were FOSS, but it still looks like a good host. I’ll add a link to it in the sidebars with the non-FOSS disclaimer and suggest that users posting videos or very large images use it. Thank you. :)

For sure; much appreciated! And of course if I’m considering any communities going forward, deference will go to searching exhaustively for existing communities. If there’s no functional difference, I’d much prefer to revive a community and make Lemmy more resilient through decentralization.

For the time being, of course, these are the first communities I’m moderating, and so I’ll stick to these for right now.

It makes sense that centralization around a specific instance can be touchy because a lot of us are refugees from another platform whose centralized administration ruined it. I’ll explain for each one of these I mentioned why I didn’t go for it.

I will not be trying to personally revive pawb.social, as I’m not a furry and have no interest in moderating a community whose unifying identity I do not and cannot relate to. That is, I’d want to help foster a community that I’d want to be a part of, which is one about Sonic rather than about how Sonic fits into the context of being a furry. I put that one in there just to address all of the ones I could possibly find. If someone does revive this community, though, I’d be happy to link it in the sidebar for the Lemmy.World one for those looking for that more specific kind of Sonic community.

As for lemm.ee, I decided against getting in contact with the admins and trying to work something out (I’m not unfamiliar with this, as I had to contact one of the administrators of Lemmy.World to work out the Sonic community since it had been previously deleted) predominantly because I felt the 500 kB image upload limit could be detrimental to those wanting to post fan art. That is, I thought it’d give users a better experience all while being easier to create on my home instance, making it a no-brainer to me.

Lastly, although you didn’t bring these ones up, I thought about asking to revive the SDF Sonic community, but I decided against this one just because of the name. I just really, really don’t like using underscores in community names where it’s not actually necessary. The .ml /c/sonic community just has nothing worth salvaging. And the .ml /c/metroid community has three posts that are all a few years old.

I don’t mind putting in the effort to contact moderators or administrators when I believe it will be in the best interest of the community. It’s just that for all of these, I felt like starting fresh on Lemmy.World was a better alternative (barring Sly, of course, who just strangely has nothing anywhere).

I do realize the importance of the UX, which is why I listed some of the mountain of problems with Windows’ UX that make it an inferior one to Linux. As I noted, the reason people tend to find Linux’s inferior is that they’re simply nose blind to the landfill of Windows UX problems that would be a dealbreaker if they were on Linux but not Windows. (That, or they literally never use Linux and just assume it’s inferior because of memes that say it is.)

The reason I pointed out that Linux has faults with the UX is to say that it’s not some perfect wonderland with zero problems, but it’s a huge improvement over Windows.

“some content and ads you see may not be as relevant to you” is what we in mathematical logic call a vacuous truth.

I use QKSMS on F-Droid.

Upvoted because your experience is valid, but I will say that mercifully so far, I haven’t had this issue personally. Instead, rather, my Windows 10 installation is basically broken because MS pushed an update that requires it to enlarge the recovery partition, but because there’s another OS past the recovery partition, it can’t. So whenever I use it now, I need to wait for it to try updating itself, recognize that it failed, and then undo the updates and boot again (the entire process takes 10+ minutes). I only use this partition for emergencies where something critical absolutely won’t work on Linux, but it’s still hilarious to me that this happened shortly after I abandoned ship.

It’s legitimately staggering to me how much easier to maintain Linux is for the average use case than Windows. No messing with drivers; has preinstalled what’s essentially a GUI app store to manage literally all of my applications; updates that don’t require a restart; no bullshit with licensure; a trivial install process with zero dark patterns; no malware; and I could just keep going. Linux has faults with the UX, but having switched to it from Windows about a year ago, it’s extremely evident why this stereotype is perpetuated in spite of Linux being the sort of OS I would recommend to my grandma over Windows: nose blindness.

When Linux genuinely improves the ease of use over Windows, Windows users don’t even recognize it as a problem. Like imagine if the roles were reversed where on Windows I could just click a button, type in my password, and update every single one of my applications at once, but on Linux, I had to individually open any given app and check for updates manually. Windows users would rightfully be bemoaning that as too complicated for a lot of users and bitching about how tedious it is to maintain (in the case of Windows, updating is a bizarre patchwork whose difficulty depends on the application’s developers). But since it’s a problem they’ve become nose blind to, when Linux actually fixes this obviously ridiculous issue Windows has, it’s seen as “not a big deal anyway”.

I can attest from a personal anecdote that eating plant-based makes it enormously easier to cut calories. Provided you don’t decide to take the costliest, least healthy route of basically living off heavily processed plant-based substitutes or the cheapest, second-least healthy route of living off pasta, ramen, and cereal, you’re likely on a diet with plenty of healthy mono- and polyunsaturated fats (and pretty minimal saturated), a high amount of proteins from nuts, seeds, grains, and legumes, a moderate amount of carbs in the form of cereal and simple sugars from fruits, and an absolute abundance of fiber (of which 95% Americans don’t get enough).

Even just incorporating something like tofu into your diet helps a bunch, because it’s basically all protein and good fats while having just a small amount of carbs. Per calorie, it does the best job I’ve ever seen of making you feel full for a long time.

I feel so bad whenever I see news about PeerTube, because it legitimately seems like a great platform on a technological level, and so far I’ve been loving Lemmy and Mastodon, but it feels like the network effect just isn’t there for PeerTube yet. Most of the content feels very hyper-specific (e.g. FOSS/privacy stuff), it feels like the frequency of videos is super sparse, and on top of that, unlike Lemmy and Mastodon, there’s just not enough federated content (let alone local) except maybe on PeerTube.TV. I pay for and watch videos on Nebula, so it’s not like I’m unfamiliar with sparse uploads, but what I do get is pretty consistently something I want to watch, and it’s all in exactly one place.

Additionally, whereas Lemmy and Mastodon make it pretty easy to find an instance to sign up with (there are a few major ones or you can go with some more minor ones and still federate just fine, and there’s not too much of a difference), the process for finding and signing up for a PeerTube instance is one of the most “what the fuck even is this” experiences I’ve ever had with a platform like this. The obvious first choice is PeerTube.TV, but you can’t register with them, so now you have to go mucking around in the hundreds of other instances (you seemingly can’t sort them in the finder) and pray that the instance is decent and has content you want. And in order to know what’s going on for each of those instances, you need to go to the About tab in the hamburger menu, read through a million lines to make sure that “speaking negatively about Stalinism will result in a ban” isn’t in the code of conduct (this was a real thing I found before), read through the list of subscriptions in a separate tab (basically none of which you can actually recognize) and/or check the video feeds, and then settle on one that seems basically acceptable.

It’s something I can justify doing as an enthusiast, but I know only a select few people in my life who would even be able to figure out how to do this at all, I know even fewer who would be willing to do it if I helped them out and pleaded with/bribed them to try it, and I’m not sure I know even a single one who would do so on their own unprompted.

Worth noting, however, that there are also rules on using one’s user page as a promotional piece. It’s much more loose obviously than the criteria for what goes in an article, but you absolutely will get smacked if you use your user page exclusively for advertising.